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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican Senator John Marshall Butler, and approved last week-without hearings-by a 10-to-5 vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Aimed at providing legislative remedy for recent Supreme Court decisions in the field of national security, the Jenner-Butler bill is certain to be hotly disputed. Its main points...
...organist, James Armstrong, to surmount these difficulties while playing an extremely difficult part, were in some cases, notably the tremendous crescendo in "Behold, all flesh," very successful. However, his choice of stops was not always happy, particularly in the use of reeds in quieter sections. But the main defects were entirely beyond his control: the sense of release which is so integral to the form of the work is impossible except as indicated in the original scoring...
Possessed by Duty. Major Philip Baldwin is a rear-echelon engineer officer with a fever for field duty. He volunteers to command a seven-man demolition team whose main target is the twisting mountain road along which all vehicles, including his own and the pursuing Japanese, must travel. The road is an undulating mass of Chinese refugees moving in grim lockstep with fear, famine and misery. In their eyes, the Americans are the dei ex machina shielded from fatality by the jeep, the SCR-300 radio and the K-ration...
When the confetti battle broke loose a few minutes after he had finished speaking, "sweethearts and relatives were forgotten as Dr. Lowell became the main target and the 76-year-old educator frolicked about like a small boy, hurling back the balls and papers as fast as he could pick them...
Most of the changes desired by the Masters relate to the dining halls. Sound-proofing, building dining rooms for small meetings, and removing steam tables from the main hall are among the "pipe dreams" suggested by House officials...